Taihei goes to a small school where each whole grade is taught as one class, but even so, there were enough kids with enough energy to make Saturday’s Sports Day a full-day extravaganza. Some of the events were competitions; there was tug of war and 100m sprints and the most creative array of relay races [...]
Posts Tagged ‘homestay’
Sports Day
Posted in japan, tagged homestay on 26 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Golden Week
Posted in japan, tagged exploring, homestay, omg amazing, outside of tokyo, yum yum yum on 11 May 2009 | 6 Comments »
Eek! I have a lot to catch up on from the past week of fun and relaxation. I had off from Monday to Thursday for Golden Week, a.k.a. series of Japanese national holidays from April 29 to May 5, a.k.a. mass exodus from Tokyo, a.k.a. omg everyone in Japan is going to go travel to [...]
Catching Up
Posted in japan, tagged exploring, homestay on 11 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s some other eventfulness from the past week that I needed to catch up on: The Hanami Never Ends Last Saturday, my host family went over to a small but well-organized hanami at the local park. We met Akiko-san and Naoko-san’s mother and had lunch there. I had edamame and yakisoba, steering clear of the [...]
More Adventures with Taihei and Earthquake Simulation
Posted in japan, tagged being ridiculous, homestay on 30 March 2009 | 1 Comment »
Since Taihei is way more what I like to think of as “in the Japanese know” than I am, I sometimes have trouble remembering that he’s just a kid—and a rather quirky and forgetful one, at that. We head out the door. “Taihei, do you have a key?” He runs back to get it. We [...]
My Host Family Is Wonderful
Posted in japan, tagged exploring, homestay, omg amazing, yum yum yum on 23 March 2009 | 3 Comments »
Hello again, finally! Sorry, I haven’t had much in the way of internet access (or time, for that matter) these past few days. I was waiting to use the internet when I went to school today, since there’s only one family computer at my house and feel bad being on it a lot (plus, the [...]
Homes and Houses
Posted in japan, tagged homestay, pre-departure on 16 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I JUST received the address of my homestay and am happy to find that (as far as I can guesstimate with google maps) my commute to school will be on the short-ish end of the expected range (40 minutes instead of 60). The city of Tokyo is divided into twenty-three wards (ku)– Chiyoda-ku is where [...]
